Wednesday, December 5, 2012

I Survived

I ended up with over 60k words for the month. I hadn't expected to be successful this year because my November was nuts, but it somehow all worked out. I think, for me, the joy of NaNo is that there are so many other nuts out there. It's also a competition, so that helps! I also get REALLY excited when I'm writing the first draft of a story, so I tend to do them fairly quickly.

I'm really enjoying the story and I'm nearing the end now. In fact I hope to wrap up the draft and put it to the side for a bit, let it marinate for a few weeks or more. In the meantime, I'm going to go over the draft I wrote for Camp NaNo in August. It's been a great year for first drafts for me!

I'm over at From The Write Angle today talking about some NaNo NoNos. I hope you'll pop over and add your thoughts to the discussion!

I write first drafts quickly as well. I believe I wrote the first draft of Medusa's Desire in a week. The rest of the time I spent on it was revisions, even more revisions because of critique partner suggestions, and even more revisions because of my editor. LOL.

Ms H - thanks! I love to fly through those first drafts. while I'm not a planner per se, I do have the characters walking around in my head for a bit before I start, so I know who they are & that helps big time.